Keith Hipel, a systems design engineering professor, was recognized with the 2019 China Friendship Award this fall.
The hands of 160 students in a first-year Waterloo chemical engineering class have likely never been cleaner as they worked on a new course project.
This fall’s Chemical Engineering Design Studio 1 (ChE180) course included designing, formulating and producing handcrafted soaps.
To help shape the future of engineering, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC) is launching a unique hands-on engineering innovation challenge designed for University of Waterloo’s engineering students.
The Toyota Engineering Innovation Challenge was part of TMMC’s funding announcement of $2.1 million to Waterloo Engineering -- the largest single financial donation ever made to a Canadian university.
Fourteen female Waterloo Engineering students lit white candles and stood shoulder to shoulder today in honour of the 14 young women who were murdered because of their gender at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal three decades ago.
The solemn, poignant ceremony in Engineering 7 on the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women was held to both remember the massacre and remind people that, despite progress, necessary work continues on the underlying issues.
A young woman from India is now studying at Waterloo Engineering with $100,000 in backing from a national scholarship program.
Chidi Umenwofor-Nweze, one of 35 prestigious Loran Scholars for 2019, started the systems design engineering program with experience including a summer stint working for the territorial government in Nunavut.
A Waterloo Engineering expert in cryptography will head a collaborative project between the Open Application Network (OAN) and the University of Waterloo to investigate ways of ensuring privacy of open applications on blockchain networks.
More than 250 first-year Waterloo Engineering students went back to elementary school recently to help teach and inspire the next generation of professionals.
Armed with activity kits from their own mechanics course, the engineering students led lessons in forces and pressure for about 600 children in grades 7 and 8 at Laurelwood Public School and Centennial Public School, both in Waterloo.
Four mechanical engineering graduate students at Waterloo Engineering earned a week-long trip to Italy this month through an awards program focused on innovation in a range of manufacturing sectors.
The Italian Technology Awards welcomed more than 50 grad students and professors from 10 countries to Milan for events including workshops at post-secondary institutions and visits to leading technology and manufacturing companies.
Waterloo Engineering researchers have created a 3D scanner that has the potential to improve everything from surgical procedures to our understanding of landslides.
Companies founded by Waterloo Engineering graduates took the top three spots in the 2019 rankings of the fastest-growing technology startups in Canada by professional services firm Deloitte.
First spot on the list, based on a three-year growth rate, was ApplyBoard, a Kitchener-based company with a platform to help international students apply to high schools and post-secondary institutions in North America.